The game crashed when I used the Research Button. The other buttons in the Kingdom Menu worked fine. No Crash Dump has been created. After some tinkering with the graphic settings and turning off Advance Lighting I can open the Research Menu, but most of the times I get some graphical glitches after closing the menu (white "cloudy" overlay or some pixelated junk like in the picture in this thread: https://forums.elementalgame.com/383853 ).

The Crash Issue seems to be gone, even if I turn on Advance Lighing. strange

dxdiag-File: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6715630/Elemental/DxDiag.txt